Taking America

Taking America

How We Got from the First Hostile Takeover to Megamergers, Corporate Raiding, and Scandal

by Jeff Madrick

320 pages· 2003· ISBN 9781587982170
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Through anecdotes and narrative, economics journalist Madrick traces the business mergers and financial speculation that arose in the early 1970s, finishing his work with a look at the fall of Ivan Boesky in the mid-1980s. He focuses on the executives behind particular corporate deals, examining how

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